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80th Anniversary, Royal Air Force Station, Brize Norton

  • BCA - 2022.3974
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  • 2018

Two-page summary of the 80-year history of RAF Brize Norton, written by Peter Fullerton in April 2018
Mentions that it was built in 1936, bombed in 1940, largest RAF Base in UK, was USAF Base for 12 years from 1960, and roles played transporting equipment and personnel to conflicts during that time..

Janet Westman

A brief history of the education at Weald Manor

  • BCA - 2019.1936
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  • eighteenth & nineteenth century

A brief history of Weald Manor• An Academy for young gentlemen is mentioned in 1790• Followed by John Beechey's Mansion House Academy in 1815 which moved into Weald Manor in the 1820s and closed in the late 1850s.

Bampton Community Archive

A few of the drama productions in Bampton

  • BCA - 2022.3196
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  • Nineteen sixties

Under the guidance of Hilda Pickard, the Drama Group in Bampton put on many excellent plays and pantomimes in the WI Hall, now called the Village Hall. This entry recalls just of few of them.MirandaOn The Road

Bampton Community Archive

A General View of Agriculture in Oxfordshire

  • BCA - 2022.3813
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  • 1813

A general view of agriculture in Oxfordshire carried out in 1807 and published in 1813. Rates, thrashing mills and tillage. Drilling, wheat, beans and tares. Cattle and Labour. Relating to Bampton and its hamlets, Haddon, Weald, Cote, Aston, Lew, Chimney and Shifford. Report is written by Arthur Young and seems to use Mr. Singleton of Bampton as an example of of how things were done.

Janet Westman

A history of the Mummer's Play in Bampton 1948-2009

  • BCA - 2019.2041
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  • 1948 2009

Don Rouse took part in the Mummers nearly every year from 1948 until 2009. He has written this wonderful account of Mummering in Bampton

Bampton Community Archive

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